When I was going through selection and training for my last SEAL team, one of the first things the instructors did was replace senior officers with mid-level enlisted members. One of the reasons why they did this was to illustrate that when you limit your thinking to inside the box, you’re confined to the box. In other words, don’t be afraid to create your own box, think and be different. If we had followed the typical military hierarchy, we never would’ve discovered (1) the latent talent that resided within the team or (2) who was capable and who wasn’t.
